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<h1>Parallel Understanding Systems Group</h1>

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<!WA0><img src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Images/plus-logo.gif" width=178 height=136 align=RIGHT>
<h2>Welcome to the PLUS Group's WWW Homepage!</h2>

The PLUS group is an Artificial Intelligence research group in the <!WA1><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/">Dept. of Computer Science</a> at the
<!WA2><a href="http://www.umcp.umd.edu/">University of Maryland at College
Park</a>.  It is also part of the <!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpssl.html"><b>High Performance Systems Software
Lab</b></a>.  The PLUS group lab is room 3270 of the <!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Images/photo-bilt.jpg">A.V. Williams Building</a>.

<h2>Research</h2>
<h3>Some Current Research Areas</h3>
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<dd><!WA5><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA6><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Parka/">Parallel Knowledge
Representation (The PARKA system)</a>
<dd><!WA7><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/cbr.html">High Performance Case-based Planning</a>
<dd><!WA9><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA10><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/HTN/">Hierarchical Task Network Planning: Formalization, Analysis, and Implementation</a>
<dd><!WA11><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA12><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Realtime/">Real-Time A.I.
Systems</a> 
<dd><!WA13><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA14><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/">Autonomous Mobile Robots</a>
<dd><!WA15><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA16><a href="http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/labs/CLIP/tutor.html">Intelligent Tutoring
System for Arabic and Spanish</a>
<dd><!WA17><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA18><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Hybrid/">Hybrid
Symbolic/Connectionist Systems</a>
<dd><!WA19><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA20><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/">Knowledge Representation on the World-Wide Web (SHOE)</a>

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<h2>People</h2>

<h3>Faculty</h3>
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<dd><!WA21><img alt="Photo" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/drhendler.gif" width=123 height=123>
<!WA22><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler/">Dr. James A. Hendler, Director</a>
<dd><!WA23><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA24><a href="http://hampshire.edu/~lasCCS/">
Dr. Lee Spector</a>
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<h3>Affiliated Faculty</h3>
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<dd><!WA25><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
       <!WA26><a href="http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/bonnie/">Dr. Bonnie Dorr</a>
<dd><!WA27><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
       <!WA28><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau/">Dr. Dana Nau</a>
<dd><!WA29><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
       <!WA30><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/saltz/">Dr. Joel Saltz</a>
<dd><!WA31><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
       <!WA32><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/vs/">Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian</a>
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<h3>Postdocs</h3>
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<dd><!WA33><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA34><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/stoffel/">Dr. Kilian Stoffel</a>
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<h3>Research Programmer</h3>
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<dd><!WA35><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA36><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/rager/">David Rager, M.S.</a>
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<h3>Graduate Students</h3>
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<dd><!WA37><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA38><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/waander/">William Andersen</a>
<dd><!WA39><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA40><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/kohout/">Robert Kohout</a>
<dd><!WA41><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA42><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seanl/">Sean Luke</a>
<dd><!WA43><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA44><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/lopes/">Carlos Lopes</a>
<dd><!WA45><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA46><a href="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~vikram/">Vikram Manikonda</a>
<dd><!WA47><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA48><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seeliger/">Oliver Seeliger</a>
<dd><!WA49><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA50><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/mtaylor/">Merwyn Taylor</a>
<dd><!WA51><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA52><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/reiko/">Reiko Tsuneto</a>
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<h3>PLUS Alumni</h3>
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<dd><!WA53><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA54><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/kutluhan/">Dr. Kutluhan Erol</a> (1995)
<dd><!WA55><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA56><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/evett/">Dr. Matthew Evett</a> (1994)
<dd><!WA57><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA58><a href="file://enws318.eas.asu.edu/pub/rao/rao.html">Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati</a> (1989)
<dd><!WA59><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA60><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/kettler/">Dr. Brian Kettler</a> (1995)
<dd><!WA61><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
Barrie Migdalof, M.S. (1994)
<dd><!WA62><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA63><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/musliner/">Dr. David Musliner</a> (Postdoc)
<dd><!WA64><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
Dr. Eduardo Ostertag (1992)
<dd><!WA65><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA66><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/rager/">David Rager, M.S.</a> (1995)
<dd><!WA67><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA68><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/sanders/">Dr. Kathryn Sanders</a> (Postdoc)
<dd><!WA69><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA70><a href="http://hampshire.edu/~lasCCS/">
Dr. Lee Spector</a> (1992)
<dd><!WA71><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
Dr. Anne Wilson (1993)
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<h2>Software Available for Public Use</h3>

<h3>Software for FTP</h3>
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<dd><!WA72><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA73><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Nonlin/">UM Nonlin Planning System</a> (a Common Lisp version
of Tate's Nonlin planner)
<dd><!WA74><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA75><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/UMT/">UM Translog Planning Domain</a> (a transport logistics
planning domain for developing and benchmarking A.I. planning systems)
<dd><!WA76><img alt="o" src="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Pictures/blueball.gif" width=14 height=14>
<!WA77><a href="ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/schank">Mini-programs</a> from <i>Inside Computer Understanding</i> and
<i>Inside Case-based Reasoning</i> by Schank and Riesbeck.
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<!WA78><img src="http://death.cs.umd.edu:8080/cgi-bin/counter?plus" alt="o">
The PLUS group WWW pages are maintained by 
<!WA79><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/rager/">Dave Rager</a> and <!WA80><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seeliger/">Oliver
Seeliger</a>.
<br>Send comments, etc. to <i><!WA81><a href="mailto:rager@cs.umd.edu">rager@cs.umd.edu</a></i>.

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